Senior Planner

We’re looking for a **Senior Planner** to join our UK Power Network Alliance team, remotely based the projects will cover the Eastern and Southern Power network. At Kier we don’t only manage projects that are beneficial for our employees we manage projects for the community, be a part of the future and be a part of it today.

**Location**: remotely based you’ll also need to visit offices and sites in London, Bury St Edmunds, Stevenage, Colchester, Maidstone, and Crawley.
**Contract**: Permanent, Full Time - flexible and part-time hours may be available if desired, just let us know.

**Responsibilities**

As a **Senior Planner**, you’ll be working within energy-based utilities helping plan the delivery of cable, and substation infrastructure projects ranging from £500k to £10m. All part of £2bn programme of works in the 2016-23 ED1 and 2023-28 ED2 regulatory period.

Your day to day will include:

- Accountability for building, monitoring, analysing and reporting on P6 project plans, adding value and challenging where required
- Ensuring that planning programmes are developed, monitored, and reported on through all stages of the project planning cycle
- Where required liaising with Operational or Development Managers to assess programme requirements for tender production
- Working closely with operational and estimating colleagues at the pre-commencement stage of a contract and ensure that a master programme is prepared
- Responsible for ensuring progress and productivity is effectively monitored, reports are produced in a timely manner and attend progress meetings, both internal and external, to review and report on progress

**What are we looking for?**

This role of **Senior Planner** is great for you if:

- Your educated to degree level / HNC or equivalent and proficient in the use of P6 planning software in a commercial environment
- Experience within the Utilities/Power Sector
- Commercially focused with good knowledge of finance and estimating

**We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include**:

- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more
- Kier’s Green Car Scheme
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

And so much more You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website.

**Who is Kier?**

As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.

We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives. You can see more about our D&I action plan here.

Closing Date: 10 May 2023

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